Centre for Classical Studies Seminar: Fevers in the ancient world
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Presented by Dr Joan Stivala (ANU) as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series To modern medicine fever is an elevated body temperature and a symptom of various diseases. The medicine of the Graeco-Roman period, however, regarded fever as a disease, or, more accurately, a complex of…
The Woman Migrant in Bharati Mukherjee’s Writings
Lecture
Presented by Dr Jyoti Nandan as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series The diasporic individual is, in a sense, in an in-between space. As Salman Rushdie puts it, this space can be enriching in that it allows one to straddle two worlds. However, as he continues, at times one falls between…
Launch of ANU Classics Museum App
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Presented by the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences The ancient world meets the 21st century in the only app of its kind in Australia. The app, which gives an overview of a small selection of items from the ANU Classics Museum's excellent collection, offers an introduction to the superb…
Women’s suffrage and the body in 'A Few Hours in a Far Off Age'
Lecture
Presented by Morgan Burgess, UNSW Canberra, as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series In 1883 Henrietta Dugdale, an outspoken Australian suffragist, published a speculative fiction called A Few Hours in a Far Off Age. Written in response to parliamentary discussion of Victorian women’s…
History and Authority: Political Vocabularies of the Modern Age
Conference
Conference presented by the Humanities Research Centre The Australian National University’s Humanities Research Centre invites staff, students and members of the public to register for its conference ‘History and Authority’ by Wednesday 20 July 2016. The conference will be held from 27-29…
L’italiano in musica: an interdisciplinary study in semantics, musicology and emotions
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This seminar forms part of the monthly cross-campus 'Emotions in Research' series. Gian Marco Farese's interdisciplinary research draws on cutting edge methodologies and theories from the fields of linguistics, musicology and emotions history and theory to explore key Italian agogic symbols, *…
Authentic Japanese newspaper materials for beginners: Tasks as assessable assignments
Lecture
Presented by Shun Ikeda as part of the ANU Language Teaching Forum Authentic newspapers in any language are usually considered to be learning materials for advanced students or at least for upper intermediate students, especially in non-alphabet based languages, e.g., character-based languages…